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  • Essay / Story of virginity and life choices - 563

    Virginity is a social construction because it is not based on objective reality, but rather on imagined reality or on the collective imagination of humans. Hanne Blank, author of "Virgin: An Untouched History" was unable to find a medical definition of virginity. Ann Knöfel Magnusson noted in Scarlteen that physically there is no difference between virgins and non-virgins. Virginity is an idea invented by the human imagination and is ultimately defined by our imagination. The definition of virginity is far from set in stone, ultimately virginity is contextual and relative to the culture, time period, and person you ask. Nor is it a “thing”; even how we define virginity depends on the lack of other variables. According to Blank, "we define virginity by deciding what ends it, what virginity is not." I could barely watch the trailers for the films "The 40-Year-Old Virgin", "The American Virgin" and "The Virginity Hit". ; they were disgusting. None of them seemed to be about virginity, just sex. Blank said there may be many "stealthy" virgins today. Virgins who don't even do it...